Khalaf, Ṣalāḥ

Khalaf, Ṣalāḥ

▪ Palestinian political activist
also called  Abū ʿIyāḍ  
born 1933, Jaffa, Palestine [now Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel]
died January 14, 1991, Tunis, Tunisia

      Palestinian political activist who was a founding member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and a close associate of PLO leader Yāsir ʿArafāt (Arafāt, Yāsirʿ).

      Khalaf's family fled to the Gaza Strip in 1948 during the conflict that accompanied Israel's independence. In 1951 he went to study at the University of Cairo, where he met ʿArafāt and Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr (Wazīr, Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-), and in the late 1950s Khalaf helped the two men establish Fatah, an organization dedicated to wresting historic Palestine from Israeli control; by the late 1960s Fatah had effectively taken control of the PLO. Khalaf was living in Jordan when fighting erupted there in September 1970 between Palestinian guerrillas and the Jordanian army, which had been instructed to expel the PLO from the country. He was arrested and given a death sentence, which was not carried out.

      Following the tumultuous events in Jordan, Khalaf (by then using the nom de guerre Abū ʿIyāḍ) reportedly organized a group known as Black September, which conducted terrorist operations in Jordan and elsewhere. He was thought to have orchestrated a number of the group's actions, including the killing of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Olympic Summer Games in Munich, West Germany. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, however, he began seeking a peaceful two-state resolution to the Palestinian question. Although he supported the Palestinian intifāḍah in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Khalaf in 1988 pressed the Palestine National Council to formally accept Israel's existence and to work for the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories. That year Khalaf became ʿArafāt's second in command following the death of al-Wazīr. His opposition to Syria's intervention in Lebanon and to ʿArafāt's close ties to Iraqi leader Ṣaddām Ḥussein, however, angered some, and he was killed by a member of the extremist group Abū Niḍāl, purportedly under orders from Iraq.

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